La guerra civil española en imagenes

La guerra civil espaÃ±ola en imagenes

Neus Catalá, anti-fascist fighter and member of the PSUC (Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia) in her youth as well as the only living Spanish survivor of Ravensbrück. During the Second World War, thousands of women were imprisoned for political reasons or for refusing to comply with the Nazi judgments in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, a facility for women only located in north-eastern Germany.

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, 1936-1939

Spain - 1939. - GC - Barcelona - Watching an air battle over the city, which was being bombed heavily by fascist planes, as General Franco's fascist troops rapidly approached. By Robert Capa, (January 1939)

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And it was the artists and writers F. Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Martha Gelhorn, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Jr, George Orwell, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso, and many others, who brought international attention to the dire situation in Spain in the mid 1930s, when war broke out against the freely elected progressive government.